Dime novels and sales catalogs dedicated to American dime novels, and journals that contain, either whole or in part, articles devoted to dime novels and their authors.
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B. Kwaku Duren is a lawyer and long-time political, social and community activist in the Los Angeles area. He has served various institutions, among them the South-Central Office of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA), the Union of Legal Services Workers of Los Angeles. He served as head of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party and chairman of the New Panther Vanguard Movement. He was co-editor-in-chief of The Black Panther International News Service. As a...
This collection contains the papers of University of Southern California alumnus, General Alumni Association executive director, and hockey coach Arnold Eddy.
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Majority of material found within 1920s-1980s
This collection consists of 1936-1946 issues of writer, activist, and politician Upton Sinclair's (1878-1968) and the End Poverty League’s publication EPIC News.
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The Filipino American Library collection consists of materials owned by the Filipino American Library in Historic Filipinotown that were transferred to the University of Southern California Special Collections in 2017. The collection is currently divided into two categories: (i) digitized material and (ii) minimally processed material. The digitized material consists of lantern slides, bound volumes, photographic prints, maps, and other materials that the USC Digital Library digitized and...
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Fire was a London-based poetry magazine, edited by Dr. Joseph H. Berke, an American-born psychotherapist based in London. It was part of the underground press movement of the 1960s and 70s. Issue no. 2 was produced in a run of 3000 copies that were printed by the Poets' and Painters' Press, London. Issue no. 2 contains works by Dodo von Greiff, Che Guevara, Harry Trevor, Gary Snyder, Georg Johannesen, Spike Hawkins, Hans Broeg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jutta Werner, Julian Beck, Calvin...
The Bessie M. Hoagland papers consists of photographs, souvenir programs, report cards, copies of Alumni Review, and ephemera collected and created by Bessie Hoagland Bianchi, USC Class of 1916.
Dr. Hoffman's papers include many historical organization journals and books, many including essays by Hoffman; his research materials, much literature related to the society E Clampus Vitus, newsletters and ephemera pertaining to Hollywood's Magic Castle, and a small trove of underground comic books ("comix"). There are also some materials pertaining to the Los Angeles Corral of Westerners, of which Dr. Hoffman is a prominent member.